Jealous boyfriend: Ashley Surfleet, 20, attacked his girlfriend while high on mephedrone after accusing her of cheating on him

A jealous boyfriend who battered his girlfriend with a pair of nunchucks before burning her face with a flame-thrower while high on drugs has been jailed.

Ashley Surfleet, 20, subjected his partner Josina Clarke, 24, to the terrifying ordeal after accusing her cheating on him with a man she met on Facebook.

A court heard how Surfleet had taken the illegal drug M-Cat before the attack which left Miss Clarke with a
broken arm, two black eyes, swelling to her nose, cuts to her head,
bruising and scratches to arms and legs and a blister on her cheek.

Surfleet was sentenced to
three-and-a-half years in a young offenders' institution after pleading
guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent and common assault last week.

A court heard how Surfleet launched the attack at his mother's home in Market Rasen, Lincs., punching Miss Clarke in the face and hitting her in the head with the deadly Kung-Fu weapon.

Miss Clarke managed to escape out of a window and hid in bushes outside on September 22 last year.

But Surfleet, of Osgodby, Lincs., found her cowering in the garden and dragged her back to the house by her hair where he punched her again.

Miss Clarke fled to the bathroom where Surfleet followed with a lighter and an aerosol can, which he used as a makeshift flame-thrower to burn her face and head.

She managed to escape by jumping 15ft from the bathroom window before running across a field to a nearby house where she raised the alarm.

Serious injuries: A court heard how Surfleet, pictured right, used nunchucks and a makeshift flame-thrower in the attack which left Josina Clark with a broken arm, two black eyes, cuts and bruises

Jailing Surfleet at Lincoln Crown Court,
Judge Michael Heath told him: 'You professed to love her but you
treated her in a way that was completely contrary of any expression of
love.